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Ask HN: Would you pay $3/yr for a bare-bones No-IP like service?
A buddy of mine was thinking about running a bunch of cli applications on a server at his home and just remoting into them so he never had to reconfigure anything. The hangup was the static-ip requirement or the need to subscribe to something like No-IP or DynDNS(at least $25/yr).
I was wondering if anyone on HN would be interested in a barebones service that just tracked your dynamic IP's current IP address and provided a one-liner way to call it to make remoting in easier.
- jonalmeida 13y agoThis is a great idea that I've been think about myself. Regarding your friend, he can still create 2 free host domains and runs DynDNS updater [1] to change the IP address as it changes on his server. [1]: http://dyn.com/support/clients/ http://dyn.com/support/clients/
- lugg 13y agoNo-ip services are free, and there are a lot of them. So to answer your question bluntly, no, sorry. Where did you get the 25/yr price from? Never mind, found the lowest tier on dyndns was 25/yr. Who actually pays that? :s Check out http://dnsdynamic.org/ http://dnsdynamic.org/ This is who I use for my raspberry pi. Setup with ddclient on debian based os: http://blog.mivia.dk/free-dynamic-dns-for-raspberry-pi/ http://blog.mivia.dk/free-dynamic-dns-for-raspberry-pi/
- BWStearns 13y agoThanks for the reply! I couldn't fully penetrate a lot of the marketing BS on some of these sites so it wasn't clear what was "free" and if it required a GUI client or some other thing capable of serving ads or whether the ads were just on their site or what.
- lugg 13y agoNo worries, a few of the sites use guis, the one I have for my Mac has one, its probably using no-ip. It installs a background CLI process that handles the updating iirc
- archagon 13y agoThat's pretty cheap, but the question is, what can you offer that something like https://freedns.afraid.org https://freedns.afraid.org doesn't? (One other point in their favor is that they're included by default in the DNS service listing for my router and NAS. Not even sure you could add custom ones.)
- BWStearns 13y ago>> they're included by default in the DNS service listing for my router and NAS. Yeah, that would definitely be beyond the scope of bare-bones as it would require cooperation with a bunch of router producing companies. I think a previous poster adequately covered the reasons this is a no-go. Appreciate the input though.